About smaXtec smaXtec is the market leader in digital health management for dairy cows. With cutting-edge sensor technology and smart software, the system helps dairy farmers detect diseases and ...

Two years ago, when “lab-based” milk seemed to be promising some more of the same mislabeling craziness that plant-based dairy imposters have been foisting on consumers for decades, an over-hyped ...

When ideal can’t be met While we’d all like to build or remodel stalls, often we find ourselves working with what is available. This brings up the discussion of how we can prevent cows from lying ...

Samantha Stamm is the 2025 Hoard’s Dairyman editorial intern. She co-owns and manages an Angus seedstock and commercial cow-calf operation with her family in northeast Kentucky, in addition to ...

Follow up on the meeting has focused on the next steps to carry this message of optimization to other nutritionists. It is the feeling of the group, and most industry professionals surveyed, that the ...

We cut the handles off our teat dip barrel at the hanging point, drilled two holes in them, and fastened one on either side of the three-wheeled shavings cart. Now it’s easy to push or pull the cart ...

Waiting for growth is a good concept for us to hang onto in a world of fast-spinning expectations. There is not an app that can make the corn grow faster, a computer program that we can plug into the ...

Among the options, short-duration treatment stands out as a targeted, science-backed solution that eliminates infections efficiently and minimizes overall antibiotic use. “The science says ...

Accelerated volumes Some progressive producers have moved to about 2 gallons per day (8 liters) of milk replacer or whole milk feeding model to program the calf for success in the first 42 days of ...

With Pennsylvania dairy production and associated businesses contributing $11.8 billion annually to the state’s economy, and those businesses creating more than 47,000 jobs, the Center for Dairy ...

The information below has been supplied by dairy marketers and other industry organizations. It has not been edited, verified or endorsed by Hoard's Dairyman. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and Jerry ...

The recent closing of U.S. ports of entry to live cattle, horses, and bison because of New World screwworm has been followed up by further federal action. The parasite, which re-emerged in Mexico in ...